348.  Strike it!  Scott says:  “There are several instances, at least in tradition, of persons so much attached to particular tunes, as to require to hear them on their death-bed.  Such an anecdote is mentioned by the late Mr. Riddel of Glenriddel, in his collection of Border tunes, respecting an air called the ‘Dandling of the Bairns,’ for which a certain Gallovidian laird is said to have evinced this strong mark of partiality.  It is popularly told of a famous freebooter, that he composed the tune known by the name of Macpherson’s Rant while under sentence of death, and played it at the gallows-tree.  Some spirited words have been adapted to it by Burns.  A similar story is recounted of a Welsh bard, who composed and played on his death-bed the air called Dafyddy Garregg Wen.  But the most curious example is given by Brantome of a maid of honor at the court of France, entitled Mademoiselle de Limeuil:  ’Durant sa maladie, dont elle trespassa, jamais elle ne cessa, ainsi causa tousjours; car elle estoit fort grande parleuse, brocardeuse, et tres-bien et fort a propos, et tres-belle avec cela.  Quand l’heure de sa fin fut venue, elle fit venir a soy son valet (ainsi que les filles de la cour en ont chacune un), qui s’appelloit Julien, et scavoit tres-bien jouer du violon.  “Julien,” luy dit elle, “prenez vostre violon, et sonnez moy tousjours jusques a ce que vous me voyez morte (car je m’y en vais) la Defaite des Suisses, et le mieux que vous pourrez, et quand vous serez sur le mot, ’Tout est perdu,’ sonnez le par quatre ou cing fois, le plus piteusement que vous pourrez,” ce qui fit l’autre, et elle-mesme luy aidoit de la voix, et quand ce vint “tout est perdu,” elle le reitera par deux fois; et se tournant de l’autre coste du chevet, elle dit a ses compagnes:  “Tout est perdu a ce coup, et a bon escient;” et ainsi deceda.  Voila une morte joyeuse et plaisante.  Je tiens ce conte de deux de ses compagnes, dignes de foi, qui virent jouer ce mystere’ (OEuvres de Brantome, iii. 507).  The tune to which this fair lady chose to make her final exit was composed on the defeat of the Swiss of Marignano.  The burden is quoted by Panurge in Rabelais, and consists of these words, imitating the jargon of the Swiss, which is a mixture of French and German: 

     ’Tout est verlore,
       La Tintelore,
    Tout est verlore bi Got.’”

362.  With what, etc.  This line is not in the Ms.

369.  Battle of Beal’ au Duine.  Scott has the following note here: 

“A skirmish actually took place at a pass thus called in the Trosachs, and closed with the remarkable incident mentioned in the text.  It was greatly posterior in date to the reign of James V.

’In this roughly-wooded island [FN#13] the country people secreted their wives and children and their most valuable effects from the rapacity of Cromwell’s soldiers during their inroad into this country, in the time of the republic.  These invaders, not venturing to ascend by the ladders along the lake, took a more circuitous road through the heart of the Trosachs, the most frequented path at that time, which penetrates the wilderness about half way between Binean and the lake by a tract called Yea-chilleach, or the Old Wife’s Bog.